ETNOFOLK portal is a unique source of information about folk culture in Central Europe, its preservation and ways of exploitation, in education, tourism and other areas, created by the renowned experts in ethnology and ethnography from Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia. It brings so far unpublished documents, pictures and videos coming from scientific archives, which can be found in the section Knowledge base as well as information about contemporary activities in the field of preservation and development of rich folk culture in Central European region. More details can be found in the section About portal.

Do you plan a holiday and you would like to find out more about the traditions in your destination? Would you like to enliven your trip with a visit to a folk song festival? Or would you rather visit a local museum or sight? Are you wandering what kind of healthy traditional dish to cook on the weekend? Would you like to find out more about local traditions around you?

Are you an expert, teacher or a student who needs a source of high quality information about the culture in the countries of Central Europe for his work? Are you looking for an expert view on a particular tradition when writing a project?

Are you planning the restoration of a historic building and need information about local traditional architecture? Would you like to find out what your community looked like many years ago?

Are you organizing an interesting event linked to folk culture in your region? A festival of folk dance and song? Do you offer accommodation in a historic building? Do you run a restaurant serving local dishes and would you like to be authentic? Or are you trying to get into the market with a popular object or tool used by our ancestors?

Animals accompanied man from time immemorial and next to the means of vegetable and mineral to the healing of the applied means of the animal, which had various ways of use. From the consumption of...
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Preparation of mineral origine played in traditional natural healing important role. Some of this preparations are a part of contemporary official medicine today. Most important in legacy of our...
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Tobacco is name of plant (Nicotiana) and product, which is produced from tobacco leaves and used for manufacturing cigarettes, cigars or filling pipes. Tobacco contains the alkaloid nicotine, which...
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Kavčnik homestead is an exceptional museum of folk architecture. The main room of the house is more than 400 years old smokehouse with an open fireplace which was used for cooking and heating....
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Tradition with the Leather Smell
Leather craft was an important traditional craft during the centuries. This craft overgrew to the industrial level in the period of industrialisation and in the 20th...
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The museum is the result of work of many generations of Slovenian miners and is a very interesting way of cooperation between the still working Coal Mine Velenje (with an annual production of around...
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This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF